The ART Mission & Theater seeks to exhibit works of artistic excellence by emerging artists, both regional and national. We will consider recent works in all media as well as fully articulated concepts for projects or installations by artists or guest curators. Currently, we also have 3 group exhibitions planned. Submissions must demonstrate a serious and professional body of work.

Group Exhibitions

Group shows will consist of several pieces per artist depending on size and preference.

Dreaming: This show is open to low brow and pop surrealism artists. Dreaming encompasses many forms, aside from a sleeping state. Experiencing déjà or jamais vu, precognition, visions, and trance states also conjure strange images in the mind’s eye. Show us what you dream!

A Cabinet of Curiosity: Cabinets of Curiosity became popular in the 1700’s, and often included objects of natural history (as well as the occasional fake), ethnography, archaeology, geology, antiques, and religious or historical relics. Painters, photographers, sculptors, etc. are all welcome to apply. Although this show will be focusing on realism, artists should feel free to create what they would like to have in their cabinet.

Street Talk: We would like to provide a positive, encouraging, and legal space for street artists to display their work. Taggers, stencilers, muralists, etc. are encouraged. Along with wall art, we would also like to have several artists working on pieces during the opening reception. Graffiti walks a fine line being a form of subversive public communication, sometimes voicing strong political, personal, and philosophical messages. If you are willing to be one of the artists creating pieces during the opening reception, please specify in your application.

There is no fee for submissions. 50% of the artwork must be for sale. The ART Mission will retain 35% of the amount paid on sales made during the exhibition or for a period of one year on any sales resulting from exposure or referral from the ART Mission & Theater.

We keep work on file for further consideration in the following calendar year.
We inform artists of the panel's decision within two weeks of the panel meeting.

REQUIREMENTS:

Artists are responsible for shipping costs and arrangement of their work to arrive and depart the gallery at the agreed upon dates. Artists are responsible for hotel arrangements; we can recommend good hotels with excellent accommodations and discounted rates through our gallery association. The ART Mission does PR online with the local newspapers in our town and surrounding areas as well as tv and radio. If the artist wishes to make postcards for their exhibition, they are responsible for cost and production; we publicize the artist's work in our newsletter that reaches over 2200 individuals on our email newsletter list.

Submit 10-12 digital images of your work on a CD, suitable for display on a PC. Use standard image formats, jpegs are preferable, not too large an image file, but good resolution. Be sure to mail disk in a hard case. Do not submit materials that require plug-ins, extensions or other executables to be downloaded or installed.

Provide a script that is numbered to match images on CD and label with your name, and contact information. Include also the title, medium, date and size of the work.

SUPPORT MATERIALS:
Send support materials in hard copy, and disks should be mailed in a hard case.
Include a current artist resume (education, exhibitions, experience to date).
If your submission is for an installation or curatorial concept, you may send a detailed proposal describing the project, including any materials that would assist us in evaluation of the work. If you are submitting work for a themed show, please specify which show (For example: ATTN: Call for Artists – Dreaming).
Artists may include previous exhibition catalogs, articles and essays about their work.
Deliver materials to:
The ART Mission & Theater
61 Prospect Ave
Binghamton, NY 13901
ATTN: CALL FOR ARTISTS
(607)722-6914